Bernard Tomic is big news in Australia. With Lleyton Hewitt heading to 30 and unlikely to reclaim his number 1 ranking that he had nearly a decade ago, all eyes are on Tomic. Tomic is some weird amalgam, as if Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe were somehow merged together. He combines the touch of McEnroe,
Justin Gimelstob doesn't know what "overrated" means. He called the Spanish doubles team of Fernando Verdasco and Feliciano Lopez overrated. You can say a player like Andy Murray is overrated or a player like Caroline Wozniacki is overrated. That is, players that have won a lot but can't close the big ones out. But Lopez
Everyone knows that Andy Roddick used to play a more aggressive game back in his youth and everyone knows in the past few years, he's gone to a more conservative, passive style. For a long time, the combination of his big serve and the ability to hang in long rallies was enough to beat most
Milos Raonic is doing the best of the "new 4" which is Raonic, Tomic, Dimitrov, and Harrison. Raonic has done the best of the four having won a tournament (San Jose) and been runner up at another (Memphis). Raonic's big weapon is his huge serve. This wins him a lot of free points. His weakness
Four matches were completed in Tokyo, an ATP 500 event. Mardy Fish played Ryan Harrison for the third time this year and for the third time, he beat him. Harrison did push Fish to a third set, but Fish still claimed the victory 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. Generally, Americans have not fared that well in events
The Spanish team, on paper, was going to be a tough out. It's hard to beat Nadal on clay and David Ferrer is no cup of tea. If France could ever field its best team, which would be Monfils and Tsonga, they might have a good shot. Both Monfils and Tsonga have a decent chance
Roger Federer hadn't looked all that solid in the two Masters 1000 events leading to the US Open. Even so, I felt that he had time to fix things up for the US Open. He's always targeted the Slams and played cleaner tennis in the Slams. His opponent in the third round was Marin Cilic.
Berlocq has an unusual bit of trivia associated with him. In 2006 at Miami, Berlocq faced Donald Young, who was also playing his first official ATP event (that is, ATP 250 or above). He beat Young love and love. In the second round, he lost to James Blake, love and love. Love had a lot
Much like Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal won a match that wasn't nearly as clean as it could be, but it's certainly an advantage in the US Open to play someone ranked a bit lower. Golubev is a big hitter, evidenced by nearly 60 unforced errors to Nadal's paltry 16 errors. Golubev broke Nadal's serve six
Donald Young has been on the tour as long as Sam Querrey, but because Sam Querrey is tall with a huge serve, he had more early success than Young. Young has mostly been toiling in Challengers and has struggled to get a big win. He did get a big win earlier in the year, beating
